skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He'd read the Wall Street Journal and get frustrated.

I'm frustrated with the WSJ too. What used to be a conservative but respected publication has over the years turned to little more than pop news and sensationalism.
Check out Jim Browning's videos [1] He records what he does through hacking into the scammer's computers to even record their webcams. He documents it all and even contacts victims if they are in the middle of being scammed when he is monitoring it.

Place to share these scams and phone numbers so others can harass these scammers. [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/JimBrowning/

[2] https://www.scammer.info/
> watched a lot of TV in the past year with the volume down and captioning onf

I like how Apple TV now lets you pair two bluetooth headsets. My wife and I can watch shows without waking the baby. Combine that with the visual sound indicator on the baby monitor, and headphones with transparency mode, we can see when the baby is making noise and hear other environmental noises too. It's a nice combination of accessibility features that make a clever setup for hearing the TV. I can't wait until Apple TV supports spatial audio... then we'll have "surround sound" in our headphones too!
Is that "white privilege?" From personal experience, I don't think police treat upper middle class asian kids any differently than that. (But I bet it would be different for upper middle class Black people.)

Statistically, and adjusted for age (which is really important because there is quite a big difference in median age between racial groups in the U.S.) asians are actually less likely to get shot by the police than whites. Latinos are about the same/a little bit more likely. Black people are twice as likely to get shot by the police.
In evolution adaptation prevails over customary behaviors thought of as morals. The question is why have the generic makers continued to cooperate instead of defect? How is the cartel protected?

In this thought I am reminded of the Econtalk podcast’s discussion of Martin Shkreli in the interview about the High Cost of Cancer Drugs with Vincent Rajkumar.

http://www.econtalk.org/vincent-rajkumar-on-the-high-price-o...

http://www.econtalk.org/extra/the-high-cost-of-cancer/
I've heard that their scotch is extremely competitive at that (low) price range.
Fun story. So we've interview candidates by giving them SQL take-home questions. We gave them a user but everyone on our team could see the queries ran by that user. One candidate was really impressive. They were using some very advance syntax and the queries were immaculate.

Turns out they were using PowerBI lol
Some of them. Some long investors are also not operating in good faith and benefit from spreading misinformation about the company and their competitors.
We have that already, and we also have people that don't participate because it is too dangerous psychologically.

At the lowest level, I am talking about even being able to watch a movie on Netflix and not be exposed to the most grotesque violence. Just black out the 36 frames of someone taking a hook through the eye. Or doing sentiment analysis on a thread and recommending that you not partake.
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I agree with the advice of getting a tutor. I am working with a tutor who has a PhD in mathematics to teach me various fields of mathematics. Doing homeworks from textbooks with someone to check your work and answer your questions has been a tremendous resource. I used to post my questions online but having a personal tutor has accelerated my progress.
Pretty much. Other things that don't help (somewhat US specific):

1. Layer of indirection created by the entire insurance system, which at this point is clearly not a good model for healthcare. Everyone needs/should have some amount of healthcare, so a system built entirely around the idea that only a minority of people should need to take advantage of the system is silly.

2. The half-assed government intervention of Medicare/Medicaid/ACA/etc – worst of both worlds in that when a government just injects shittons of money into the private sector (without very strong controls on price and behavior), what you end up with is ballooning costs... and that's about it. See also the govt. guaranteeing student loans for another example of the same. Or the Military Industrial Complex. And so on.
He is exactly right. The powers that be (dark money) have long sought to remain in control of their subjects. Just because we don't have monarchies doesn't mean we don't have a few elite who few themselves as rightful directors and owners other all things on Earth.

They have manipulated markets through various institutions and making knowledge so hard to come by without going into massive debt in order to maintain their elevated status.

In their arrogance though, they thought they could reverse the trend of the democratization of their power to the masses, and have literally tried to move heaven and earth in order to remain in power and reverse the trend.

My curious position is I think they are realizing that the trend is irreversible, that power eventually will always diffuse to the masses eventually as no system is perfect, there will always be leaky abstractions, and I have no doubt they have a nuclear option in their back pockets to try and quell the massive shift of power that seems inevitable at this point. Question is, what is that nuclear option?
"In the current US system, if your employer does not provide (any|sufficient) insurance coverage, you have to get your own and there are a million options all ready to fleece you. It is almost impossible to comparison shop and choose between 100 bad options."

I've been using the ACA marketplace here in good ol' Alabama, and I've had the opposite problem. There are four choices, all from BC/BS.

Note: I love the ACA. I will fight for the ACA unless and until I'm presented with an actual better option. Prior to the ACA, I had options from other companies, none of which covered my major problem.
Stupidly, no, the standard poverty rate doesn't take into account cost of living, AT ALL.

When adjusted for cost of living, California, not Mississippi, has the highest poverty rate, for example.
I would not be surprised to the photogs revolting by just running everything in full auto. Frame it, and shoot it. No more thinking after the framing decisions. Nice and easy, give me my cheesy.
Saying Goodbye to My Therapy Fears
Peat fires continue to burn at air temperature of -50C in northeastern Yakutia
I'm curious what people here think about building projects in remote teams as a strategy for learning software developer skills? Could also apply to other related roles like UX/UI designers, product owners, etc.

Specifically, after a certain base skill level has been reached. Also, these teams would include deadlines, navigating git/github, time management, communicating with others, etc.

Full-disclosure: I'm a part of a community / startup that organizes such teams for learners. I don't want to be spammy so will refrain from saying the name. It actually grew out of a MOOC forum to help with some of the issues mentioned in OP's article. It ran for about 3 years free as a time-intensive side project, but switched to paid to reduce another common MOOC issue (ghosting).
Yes, a tablet is a single pill. Sometimes you'll split the pill, so a tablet might be 2 doses. But 1 pill.

Note that retail pricing is an unreliable indication of actual cost to consumers. They jack it up so that they various plans can claim huge discount policies. Some of these plans are free, so there's very few people who are paying this "retail" price.

The pill makers get paid by the consumers and, in most cases, by the plan-owners. And such agreements are made exceedingly complicated. IMO, only to make them more opaque and more difficult to regulate.

Unfortunately, such a system is highly regressive as the richest tend to have the best plans, the poorest tend to have a meager plan, and the transient have no plan other than showing up at a hospital.
Interesting. I wasn't aware of the PFAS aspect. I'll look for a workaround to read the full article later. Most of the obvious approaches are blocked from my work machine.
I really love every effort in this space and especially if making good use of ipfs, but to give an idea about how far this is from the maturity of lets say signal: the more mature parts of ipfs are just starting to become mainstream in the last couple of months. But Berty relies on the very experimantal database orbitdb that relies on the pretty experimental pubsub feature of ipfs that is to my knowledge nowhere near generally usable and scalable. I would consider berty and orbitdb as well as other projects relying on ipfs pubsub all very exciting "future" projects that are just waiting on ipfs to solve the technical challenges and as soon as the ipfs team is ready they will be ready too in a relatively short amount of time. But when that will be is hard to tell, all i know is that pubsub is experimental since early 2017 and my yearly tryouts so far always come to the conclusion that it cannot be widely used yet but will be key to a lot of ipfs applications and could lead to a breakthough for many usecases for ipfs.
I dont know if manufacturing is the problem. Cant you import drugs from India or other country with cheap off label drugs?
The system is built to prey on the sick, it has nothing to do with manufacturing.
I like his idea, but doubt it will work
The part about transparency and speaking openly really struck a chord with me. Every time I have tried to be transparent about investing and speculation here on HN I’ve been shot down with downvotes, despite that anyone following my advice over the years would have made massive amounts of money. I think people just get scared when you talk about money so openly.
Even ignoring time spent doing non-work things we don't do, free time has increased a lot over a century. We have good data on this. Factory shifts circa 1900 were long, and 2-day weekends rare.

Unless "centuries ago" means several centuries, in which case maybe it's murkier, the pre-industrial world was different. IIRC hours worked increased in the pre-industrial build-up to the revolution -- perhaps because there was more to buy, and people adjusted to try to buy things, rather than stopping when they had enough to eat.
Or maybe Frank Herbert’s Dune was?
This is the great, concise callout that is clearer than hundreds of messages in HN discussions.
Finding something good second hand takes time and luck. A lot of second hand stuff is garbage because the good stuff is snatched up quick.
"I must be missing something then."

The part where you are one of the people who doesn't have a card from insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
Yeah, exactly, half of the stuff. You should be able to have all of this available by default. And it should have first class support without having to do complex setup. Also writing gql queries has always felt hacky and uncomfortable to me, without IDEs having the best support for it, and type safety? But maybe I haven't had the perfect setup.

Also graphql forces you to a certain way to resolve your data which may not always be the best fit.
We didn't do anything special. Signed up for the waitlist on day one and just randomly got an email one day saying we're in.
I've done plenty of maintenance programming. Most OO involves abuse of the paradigm anyway.

Most people don't use inheritance to large AND good effect. Or they use it and create a mess. Deep hierarchies of inheritance need to be carefully designed or they become a mess. All the hiding means less clarity about what is happening when things go wrong.

That said, its a valid approach and can yield useful results. Especially when you can just add a thing to a list and simply call a method on it without having to bother to know what it is.
Ah, I don't ever remember reading numbers for those so I can't comment on that (I'd be curious if anyone has a breakdown of surgery costs by elective, semi-elective, and emergency).

But even stuff like hip replacement kind of is on a sliding scale. How much choice do you have if the alternative is death? What about cognitive impairment? What about blindness? What about impaired range of motion? What about mild discomfort? What about pure annoyance?
Certainly government is competent in many places, but the performance of the American national and many state governments throughout the pandemic hasn't exactly been confidence inspiring. I don't think Americans who believe that their government isn't capable of many simple tasks are delusional.
Support for 32-bit builds and native BSD builds? That's two factors mentioned in the linked-to Hackaday piece. Following the links also shows things like disabling "some of the more intrusive Google features."

Where did you get the idea that anyone thinks Google should be forced to support other browsers?

The Hackaday piece even says "Google is going to run their business as they see fit. If they think allowing unofficial builds of Chromium to tap into their cloud services such as Sync isn’t worth it, it’s their prerogative to block them."

The topic is more the annoyance that what had once been an official exception to the terms of service (which passed through legal and the VP level at Google) has not merely been rescinded, but treated as if it were never valid and its asserted mis-use "discovered" by an audit.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932598, which was posted earlier.
> On iPhone if you and a friend in iMessage are together and one can connect to a protected WiFi, the other can connect to. Automatically.

I don't think this is accurate. The Wifi sharing feature works differently. It's documented here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209368
I'm not sure how you made the jump from the AMA limiting med school enrollments to "youtube doctors".

We could split the difference and expand existing med schools or start new ones with similar standards.
The roof thing is true. I can't find statistics on how often they have to be replaced, but my guess is every 10 to 15 years. This is usually structured so that homeowner's insurance covers all or nearly all of the cost, but of course that makes insurance more expensive.

Google tells me Austin has about 20,000 acres of parks for 950,000 people, and San Diego has about 40,000 acres for 1.4 million. If he really lived in Bee Cave he was pretty close to Zilker Park, which is hard to complain about.

Some of the other complaints feel legit and some seem strange. We were not calling teachers "sir" or "ma'am" in school when I was in elementary school in a more conservative Texas the 1980s, for example, much less in Austin now. Scorpions pop up occasionally, especially in West Texas, but I've lived in various places in Texas in between living other places for decades and I've never seen a scorpion outside of a herpetarium at the zoo. He'll definitely encounter more of those if he moves to Reno.
Prices can go as low as $300 for two tablets, if you have a GoodRx annual subscription. I think the $13 is actually a wholesale substitution price, as there are lower prices available for this drug for the same dosage through veterinary channels.
You are healthy and not self-employed, I take it.
And the Corleone family business was olive oil.
> So, they don't run Linux, don't use glibc? That can't be all that common? (I mean sure, there's the bsds.. But still..).

We do run Linux :)

But there is a difference between building on and building with.
It's good to hear that the beta API application process is as probabilistic as their algorithms.
> worse in almost all ways

How so? I dislike the text color choice, but other than that it seems perfectly fine to me.
> and was fined $200 million

To which their response was probably, "pleasure doing business with you"
This analogy would work if you were already paying 10000x more than the roommate in the first place.

Remember, all of the talk of billionaires “paying less in taxes than their assistants” is not based on raw collected amounts, it’s based on percentages. A billionaire with an effective federal tax rate of 15% on 50 million income is paying 7.5 million in taxes, which is more than all of the federal tax collected from the bottom 10% of income combined.
I have never seen the show, so I don't know how the offers are described.

Usually it's just one of the sharks offering something like "I'll pump in $500k for a 20% stake." (numbers made up) No details beyond that.
Shameless plug: at work we created axe-storybook-testing [1], which can be used to run accessibility tests against Storybook stories [2] on CI.

1. https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/axe-storybook-testing
2. https://storybook.js.org/docs/react/get-started/whats-a-stor...
> I'd also be interested in what difference there is running a PCIe 4.0 graphics card with only 8 lanes on 4.0 vs 3.0

it's measurable, but not very significant. take a look at these charts: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-p... (pcie 2.0 x16 is equivalent to or slightly worse than pcie 3.0 x8)
I have tried using this API and found it incredibly technical and complex. Personally I find the PeerJS library an excellent wrapper rendering it useable.

Hopefully over time it will become more accessible.
It's not a straw man if the first commenter was intending to use "self-made" to actually mean something to a reader anywhere close to an average reader. To an average reader, even on this website which probably skews American and wealthy, it's just not reasonable to refer to someone as a "self-made billionaire" when they received a loan from their parents that's well over 3 times the median household income in the United States.
autotools were originally designed to abstract away the platform-specific UNIX differences, 40 years ago.

Today UNIX and those platform-specificities don't exist anymore.

Instead we have Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS. Unfortunately, autotools haven't kept up and don't actually do anything useful to help you write portable code across Linux and MacOS.
Show HN: Browser extension that plays papa roach on any site that says gamestop
It is nice to sue all of those companies for colluding. But can't you just import those drugs for less from India or other cheap drug producing country?
I am not sure the problem lies in manufacturing. The system is rigged between the insurance companies and the medical system and the middle men!!
Offering a cheaper cost, means more money for the middle men probably
Disagree. The short-sellers are correct about GameStop's valuation. In a liquid and competitive market they would profit and help the price move into the direction of correct valuation.
I don't get how this works. The copyright on works may expire, but aren't these also trademarked characters? As I understand it, trademarks never expire, as long as they're actively in use -- which these still are.

What actually becomes legal when these works go into the public domain? What uses are possible without violating the trademark?
"Of course IPv6 is the ultimate long term solution."

I feel like this is similar to

"We'll have nuclear fusion in the next 30 years."

:)

However if you look at the graph from google - https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

maybe it'll be here sooner than we think...
Yeah. They're violent, and they're extremists, but their violence isn't extreme. Yet.
Reddit Announces Partnership with Ethereum
> Comparted to Breitbart, Fox News, and other non-fact based journalism

You're assuming that the NYT is "fact based journalism". I don't think it is. They are pushing a point of view, just as every other media source is.

> indispensable for all news outlets

I know the news outlets claim this, but I find the claim to be either very stupid (highly unlikely) or very disingenuous (much more likely). If I want to know what the NYT published today, I can go to their website. If I want to know what CNN is saying today, I can just watch them (or go to their website). Everyone knows these news sources exist and where to find them; it's not like they're new startups trying to acquire users. So the idea that the news outlets need to be visible in Google searches or Facebook feeds for people to know what they are saying is ludicrous.
It is pretty nice to have both!

For beefier machines VP8 works great, and you don't need to worry about cost. For IoT/Embedded space you usually just get H264 (from a hardware encoder). If we didn't have both I think it would shut out a lot of interesting use cases.
> what has planted this worry in your mind?

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/03/best-whit...

* https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/melanieverwoerd/mel...

* https://3downnation.com/2020/06/02/dear-white-people-its-tim...

* https://medium.com/i-taught-the-law/shut-up-white-people-950...

* https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-11/a-time-to-spea...

* https://select.timeslive.co.za/ideas/2020-06-09-dear-white-p...

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-long...

I'm not certain what you're asking or what you mean by "planted." The word "planted" implies that an idea with no basis in reality was put into this person's head. Seems like a strange way to word it if you're asking that question in good faith.

Anyway, I'm not speaking for the person you responded to, my point here is simply that there are people with loud enough voices saying "white people" should "shut up." That is what I see as part of the current tenor, which would mean that some white people aren't going to bother engaging in this.
The difference in this particular case is that Ikea is not taking productive forest land and taking it out of production. It is taking naturally forested land that is at risk of deforestation that would ostensibly then be used for a monoculture wood farming industry.

If this land was used for timber, it would reduce biodiversity in Georgia. That would unquestionably be a bad outcome for the environment. Deforestation and a reduction in biodiversity is a major problem the world faces, and it impacts much more than just the trees and plants - much of wildlife like animals, insects, and fish are losing their natural habitat and being driven extinct as a result of this practice.

You can hype up timber forestry tactics all you want, but what Ikea has done is a good thing for the world, no matter how disingenuous they might be due to their products consuming large amounts of timber for furniture.
I heard once that cost-plus is related to the bloating of US defense budget and Boeing, Lockheed etc post WW2. Could someone familiar share some thoughts on what differences there are w this in pharma?
> One of the great things about accessibility is that it often doesn't just benefit people with disabilities.

I really love how Microsoft's design team has pushed this with their “Inclusive Design” concept[1] and highlighting how any sort of disability can be situational (holding a baby), temporary (broken arm), or permanent (missing arm) but we often only think of those in the last context despite there being orders of magnitude more people in the first two categories. Parenting is really good for showing this out since you get the need to be quiet, be able to do something using only one hand (or none), navigate sidewalks with a stroller, trying to do anything while sleep deprived, etc.

There's a great chart on page 42 (“Persona Spectrum”) of this PDF which I try to get every team I work on to go through which really gets people to think about what this means:

https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/0/d/b0d4bf87-09ce-...

1. https://www.microsoft.com/design/inclusive/
I've been wanting this for Linux for a while. I wouldn't actually use it for the cursor but I would love it for moving the focus. "Focus follows eyeballs" if you will. As I primarily interact with my system using the keyboard it is a lot of work to grab the mouse to select a window, or cycle though with alt-tab. And occasionally I type into the wrong window.
I agree - let's.

Someone should make a list of the companies and executives implicated in generic drug price fixing. Shame is a very powerful tool...